Exfoliation joints or sheet joints are surface-parallel fracture systems in rock, often leading to the erosion of concentric slabs. Commonly follow topography...

hydraulics, exfoliation, unloading (release), and cooling. Different authors have proposed contradictory hypotheses for the same joint sets and types...

decreases; as a result the rock fractures. These fractures are known as exfoliation joints, or sheet fractures, and form in onionlike patterns that are parallel...

makes desquamation of the lens impossible. Desquamative gingivitis Exfoliation joint Moist desquamation Pityriasis—flaking of the skin Spalling Sunburn...

described by strike and dip, including sedimentary bedding, fractures, faults, joints, cuestas, igneous dikes and sills, metamorphic foliation and fabric, etc...

Thin-skinned deformation Thrust tectonics Fracturing Columnar jointing Dike Exfoliation joint Fissure Joint Vein Faulting Cataclasite Cataclastic rock Detachment...

recognized in exfoliation joints. In joint systems where relatively long joints cut across the outcrop, the throughgoing joints act as master joints and the...

chamber. Physical weathering occurs on a large scale in the form of exfoliation joints, which are the result of granite's expanding and fracturing as pressure...

quarries, and for the formation of joints in rock outcrops. Retreat of an overlying glacier can also lead to exfoliation due to pressure release. This can...

resulting in exfoliation (responsible for the rounded shape of the many domes in the park) and mass wasting following the numerous fracture joint planes (cracks;...